Ex-Mass. officer sentenced after 2nd rape conviction

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A former part-time Rutland police officer already serving a 10- to 12-year prison sentence for raping a woman has been convicted of rape again in an unrelated case.

The Telegram & Gazette reports that Jason Briddon was sentenced Thursday to 18 to 20 years in prison for a May 2007 sexual assault on a 27-year-old Worcester woman who had accepted his offer of a ride home from a bar. The judge ordered him to serve the latest sentence upon completion of the first sentence that started in 2010.

The 40-year-old Briddon was convicted in July of rape and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.